Jamie Metzl in the Christian Science Monitor on Whether Karzai and Obama Can Work Together

Asia Society Executive Vice President Jamie Metzl spoke to the Christian Science Monitor about relations between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Obama administration. Click here to read the full article.

Metzl shares the general consensus among analysts, however, that there's no alternative to Karzai on the horizon. He says there is no serious talk in Washington of withdrawing support from Karzai as the US did with South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963, which led to Diem's ouster and murder that year.

"What the Diem experience has taught the US is [that] as flawed as your partner is now, the next guy will probably be worse," says Metzl.